Music
has a great impact on the human body and brain. Listening to music serves as a
means of the development of the right brain hemisphere, with its prevalent
imagery and holistic thinking.

The
traditional music therapy approach is usually based on discrimination of the
music mood only as a whole, without the examination of its components as special
patterns of psychological influence. However, it is especially important to use synesthetic
components in music listening in order to be able not only hear music sounds but
also be successively associated with something seen, smelled, touched in one's
individual imagination.

The
main goal of the paper is to present the author's educational methodology for
the successful perception of the 20th century music chords by means of the
application of a synesthetical approach in music hearing. During the
presentation the author will describe the methodological core of her
systematization of music patterns as well as the analysis of their influence.

Certain
types of chords are invariably perceived by the people in certain color (or in
sector of color spectrum), geometrical figures, clearness, volume, contrast,
density, temperature, taste, smell, and so on. Therefore, we can select and
classify their psychocorrective properties. For instance, it is possible to use
a number of chords (among them are so called "Webern-chords) to evoke
associations with something in blue, cold, shimmering color, crystal structure,
as a means for lowing of a blood pressure. A special table of auditory, visual,
and kinesthetic submodalities will be demonstrated in its psychocorrective
action within the sound effect.

The
proposed method has been proved - scientifically - in my Post-Doctorate
dissertation "Solfeggio - Psychotechnique of Ear Training (M., 1999), and
practically & pedagogically - in series of experiments in Moscow
Conservatory (1995-2002) as well in various workshops in other music colleges in
Russia and abroad.

The
presented methodology may be applicable both in the group / individual
self-improvementand in psychocorrective sessions as well as in special lessons on music
appreciation.